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No. 705,859. Patented July 29; I902.

c. NEUENDOBFFER & B. wn'scn.

BOOK COVER.

(Application filed Oct. 23, 1901.

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UNITED STATES EFIcE.

PATENT CARL NEUENDORFFER, OF NEW YORK, AND BERTHA VITSOH, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

BOOK-COVER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 705,859, dated July 29, 1902.

Application filed October 23, 1901. Serial No. 79,608. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CARL NEUENDORFFER, residing at Manhattan borough, New York city, and BERTHA WITSCH, residing at Flatbush, Brooklyn borough,New York city, State of New York, citizens of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Book-Covers, of which the following is a specification.

What to do with the magazines that ac cumulate in the house and the preservation of which is very much desired in the bookcase has led to the production of the hereindescribed improvement whereby the paper covers can be easily and'quickly substituted or supplemented by stiff covers separately attached to the bound-back of the book: and effecting thereby a strong binding of stiff covers to the leaves at the bound back. This novel fabric binder device and the novel manner of applying it is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which, in connection with the following description and the claims appended thereto, will particularly set out the parts and combination of parts which constitute the invention.

Referring tothe drawings, Figure l represents the inner faceof the stiff front cover and the four-leaf-fabricbinder device gummed by two of its four leaves to the hinge edge of the cover and to its fly-leaf, a flap being shown as an extension ofthe cloth facing of the back cover for, covering and finishing the bound backofthe book when its stiff covers are attached each bya four-leaf binder,which is seen in Fig. 8. Fig. 2 shows the inner face of the back cover and the four-leaf-fabric binder device gummed to its hinge edge and to its fly-leaf by two-of its four leaves. :Fig. 3 shows in cross-section the hinge partofthe front cover and the manner ofguinming the bound back of the book thereto by the fourleaf-fabric binder device, the covering and finishing flap for the bound back of the book being also shown as an ezitensionof the front cover. Fig. 4 is'a like section of the hinge part of the back cover, showing its four-leaffabric binder device gummed by two of its leaves to the stiff cover and its fly-leaf, the

other two leaves serving to fasten the cover to the bound back of the book. Fig. 5shows in perspective the parts of the covers as they are attached to the bound back of the book by the four-leaf-fabric binders and the flap extension of the fabric facing of the front cover which, as a finishing part, is bound over thebound back of the book as in Fig. 6. Fig. 6 shows in cross-section the parts as they appear in Fig. 5, showing the finishing-flap of the front cover gummed or pasted over the bound back and upon the back cover. Fig. 7 shows the corner of the front cover and the end of the four-leaf binder turned up to show how two of its leaves are gummed to the flyleaf and to the inner face of the front cover. Fig. 8 shows the four-leaf-fabric binder in perspective,wherein is indicated the gummin g of two sides of each pair of leaves and the manner in which each pair of leaves is sewed together. Fig. 9 is a cross-section of the same, the dotted line indicating the connection of the separate leaf parts.

To prepare apaper-covered book for being bound with stiff covers by our invention, a solid foundation for holding the stiff covers is first prepared by pasting a numberof the leaves of each side of the book together at the bound back and along the unprinted margin of the sheets, as indicated by the numeral 1 in Figs. 3, 5, and 6-, for obviously the first and last leaves of the book would soon tear from its wire or other binding if forming only the hinges of the stiff covers. For binding the stiff covers to this solid leaf-foundation 1 a four-leaf-fabric binder device, Figs. 8 and 9, is employed, and it consists'of two strips of fabric, preferably ofmuslin, of equal length and width, sewed together mediately of their width, so that each strip will form a pair of leaves 2, 3, 4, and 5, each pair abutting at the line of stitching 6, so as to -form a hinge for the coversand for the book.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, let 7 be thefront cover and 8 the back cover, both of paperboard covered on the outer side with a-cloth finish and on the inner side witha paper finish 9 by pasting. To the end leaves of the book and to the covers beneath the inner side of the paper finishing, and to each, is gnmmed a pairof leaves of one of the four-leaf-fabric binder devices.

10 in Figs. 1, 3, and 6 is the end or fly leaf at the front cover, while in Figs. 2 and 4 at the back cover 11 is theend or fly leaf, and 9 is the inside paper finishing, and when the fonr-leaf-fabric binder device is gnmined or pasted, as hereinafter described, to these covers they are complete each in itself to be bound to and to form the complete binding for the bound back of a paper-covered book, as seen in Figs. 1 and 2. In making these covers first letit be the front cover 7. One of the leavessay 4of the four-leaf binderis fastened by its gummed side 12, Fig. 8, to the inner face of the paper finishing 10, and this finishing sheet,with its gummed binder-leaf 4, is then pasted over the inner side of the front cover, as shown in Figs. 3 and 6, thus securely fastening the four-leaf-binder device by two of its leaves to the front cover 7. The next step is to fasten the binder-leaf 5, Figs. 2 and 8, which lies under the leaf 2in Fig. 1, by its gnmmed side 13 to the binding edge of. the end leaf 10, which forms the front fiy-leaf, and this reinforces and completes the fastening of the four-leaf-binder device by the two leaves 4 and 5 of one of its sewed strips to the front cover, leaving the two leaves 2 and 3 of the other sewed strip of the binder device to be fastened to the bound back by their adjacent gummed faces 14 and 15, Figs. 8 and 9.

In Figs. 2 and 4 it is seen that a four-leaffabric binder device is fastened to the back cover 8 and to the end or fly leaf 11 of the book in the same manner as an identical fourleaf-binder device is fastened to the front cover, leaving the two gummed binder-leaves 2 and 3 to be bound to the bound back of the book, as in Fig. 6.

To bind the book with the covers, the solid pasted foundation-leaves l at the back of the book are pressed and firmly set upon the gummed leaf 2 of the front cover, fastening the two together, while the other leaf 3 of the same binder-strip is turned up and pressed and firmly set against'the bound back of the book, as in Fig. 3, thus securing the latter to the four-ply binder and to the front cover. The back cover 8, with its separate four-leaf binder, is then placed upon the book with its gummed binder-leaf 2, Figs. 2 and 4, pressed and firmly set upon the solid pasted leaves 1, while the binder-leaf 3 is turned down and firmly pressed with its gummed side 15 over and against the turned-up binder-leaf 3 of the front cover, and which had already been pasted to the bound back of the book, as in Figs. 5 and 6. In this way both stiff covers are fastened to the bound back of the book; but this leaves the bound back itself uncovered and unfinished, as in Fig. 3, and for covering the bound back to complete the binding a flap 16, which is preferably an extension of i the cloth facing of the front cover, is provided and gummed, so that it may be turned up over and against the back and over and upon the back cover of the book and firmly pressed and set, as in Fig. 6, so that it not only reinforces the binding of the book to the covers, but makes a finished binding. The hem 17, Fig. 5, of the cloth facing of the front cover is extended along the edges of the flap when turned over and. pasted on the back cover, and to make a neat finish of the corners of the flap the ends of the hem are slit across, so as to give a free end piece 18, which allows it to be drawn in obliquely with a slight lap on the end of the hem, as at 19 in Fig. 5, and thus prevent the corner of the lap from curling up in the use of the book.

Obviously the flap-back binder can be an extension from either cover and is of a width to adapt it for different thicknesses of books or for several magazines bound together.

To prevent puckering in pasting the leaves of the four-leaf binder especially along the back of the, book, they may be slit transversely, as seen at 20 in Fig. 8, so that they will be formed into two or more parts, thereby rendering each part in the length easily pressed to a smooth finish.

While the adjacent sides of each pair of the binder-leaves are stated to be gummed, whereby one pair is attached to the cover and the other pair to the book, it will be understood that the other adjacent sides of each pair are not gummed and that these ungummed sides are between the end or flyleaves or the paper cover and the leaves of the book, as seen in Figs. 2 and 7, so that the book can be opened freely at the hinge of the covers.

Obviously the gummed surfaces are mois tened in applying them, and while a convenient manner is described of doing this first With the front cover the back cover may be first applied to the bound back.

The covers may be flexible and as well as their finishing-facings made of any suitable material, and the device may be gummed to the paper covers of the magazine and not to the fly-leaves or to either.

Looking at Figs. 1 and 2, it will be noted that each cover part is complete in itself and may be sold as articles of manufacture to be applied directly as the front and back covers of a paper-bound magazine, while such application of one of the cover parts forms also the binding for the back proper and renders the paper-bound book thereby a newly-covered article.

We claim 1. As a new article of manufacture, a binding for paper books and the like, consisting of a front and back having means for flexibly uniting them together, and fabric binders for the front and back each composed of a plurality of united leaves one of which is secured between the cover part and the inner finishing-sheet, another of which is adapted to be secured to a fly-leaf and the other two of which are adapted to be secured to the outer side and the back of the body'of the book in the manner substantially as described.

2. A book having a plurality of its leaves at the front and back gummed to form solid parts, a fabric binder at each inner edge of the book-body, said binders being each composed of a plurality of united leaves a pair of which are secured to an inner edge of the book-body, and a cover consisting of a front and back the front of which has aflap extension for securing the cover parts together, and each cover part having an inner finishing-sheet between which and the cover part another leaf of the binder is secured.

3. In combination with a paper-bound book, a front and a back stiff cover part each having a separate gumined fabric-binder strip along its inner edge, and a gumine'd flap extending from the front cover along the fabric binder,

the said binders uniting the covers to the book at its back edges and the gummed flap uniting the cover parts, covering the binders and forming a binder for the back.

4. In combination with a paper-bound book having a plurality of its leaves gummed together to form a foundation extending from thebound back on each side of the book, a front and a back cover part each having a separate fabric-binder strip fastened to said foundation parts and the front cover part having a gummed flap for covering the binders, uniting the covers and forming a binding for the back.

In testimony whereof We affix our signatures in presence of two Witnesses.

CARL NEUENDORFFER. BERTHA WITSOH.

Witnesses:

W. J. WEBB, JAooB MILLER. 

